skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there will be any breakthroughs in managing cashflow, value based pricing, and similar topics anytime soon.

If I were writing ebooks and workshops on something technical - like Ruby - then yes, it would be a bad example to withdraw from Ruby.

Also, I doubt I'll ever stop consulting altogether. But my days of writing code full time for clients is drawing to an end.
The sun's brightness per area is constant with distance. If you move twice as close to the sun, the brightness per area is exactly the same as it is on Earth, it just covers four times as much of the sky.

If every sight line ended on a star, you'd expect the entire sky's brightness per area to be that of a star.
And worth mention is religion. The United States has a jaw-droppingly powerful contingent of politically active Baptists and Catholics who have outspoken opinions on why sexism is moral. Northern European Christians tend to be Lutheran, which gives many fewer shits about political issues; I'd have to check stats to see the strength of Catholicism there, but I believe it's weaker than Lutheranism. Not to mention that atheism has a far stronger showing in Europe in general.

Finding third variables are your friend! (I am not saying that religion is the root of sexism in America; I am just agreeing with the correlation ≠ causation point and offering an alternative theory.)

ETA: It's also worth pointing out that Catholicism itself is not a good root cause to point at; I've noticed that their political actions are driven by a desire to remain relevant and possibly to maintain support from political actors, rather than some sincerely doctrinal motive. Thus, American Catholicism could be very different from Northern European Catholicism.
Just wanted to remind you that this post was about sexism at work, NOT about sexual harassment.
Kickstarter makes it clear they are not a "purchaser of a product." How much money you make doesn't change being responsible for how you spend it.
Now in China, the mainstream mid-end Android phones from local brands price at $150 or so. Less and less people buy Symbian and feature phones. And Windows Phone only has very small market share, maybe 3%. Nokia is dying.
No, the Kindle is a great product
Except that it does help.
I wish I could draw you a Venn diagram. There'd be a circle that's labelled "sexism at work" and a circle labelled "sexual harassment" and there'd be a bloody overlap between the two circles.
I didn't know that! One wonders what the hell they were thinking in the first place.
Those must also have been the warheads that already were on Cuba and McNamara and Kennedy weren't aware of during the Missile Crisis.
http://youtu.be/T_kxPwFJOQs?t=16m19s
> What killed Delphi was the mismanagement at Borland.

... and VB and the (shift to the) Internet.
"Political correctness"

I actually love political correctness, and people ranting about it always appear to me as deliberately obtuse and trying to avoid responsibility for behaving in certain ways.

Here's the thing: political correctness is not the same thing as Orwell's newspeak. It's about being recognizing that certain expressions are hurtful, and remaining conscious not only about what you want to say, but also what will be heard when you say it. It's also about the idea that the original author almost got, but not really: that maybe the divisive attributes shouldn't be mentioned when they're irrelevant (though the author is certainly wrong about gender's relevance. Yeah, it should be -- but it's not, and making gender activists shut up won't make it irrelevant). It's about recognizing that language actually shapes the social reality and the perception if certain ideas (both desirable and not) are something acceptable (there's some neat studies on how people choose their ideologies based on whether they perceive them as socially accepted).

It's really sad that the concept ended up becoming a weasel word used by bullies to say "this person just complained about me being a bully, and that makes me feel uncomfortable".
I consider american PC towards women (or blacks etc) as a symptom. What makes you think it helps, other than overstating the problem (which in itself does not solve it)?
Selling something for $150 off-contract isn't anything to get excited about when the developing world (India and China mainly) already has huge market penetration from the likes of Samsung, ZTE, SE etc. - they are all selling equally capable phones at similar price point.

I.E. the situation is not very different from western markets - Samsung/Sony/ZTE already have a mindshare there at low and high end - even if you forget the low end iPhones. Plus to Nokia's detriment, Samsung can always release their "better" $150 Windows Phone in those markets.

Also the app situation isn't changing - at this point they really needed the app development scene nailed - Microsoft hasn't even released the SDK for WP8. Developing world is not somehow going to ignore that and spend $150 buying a dumb phone replacement.
Really, high-frequency trading is the most common sort of trading? That is absolutely astonishing. Do you think that says anything about how much stock (by valuation) is invested long-term?
No, I said that it doesn't matter whether an entity aiding noncommercial filesharing is itself commercial (like The Pirate Bay might be; just having ads does not make an entity commercial).

The analogy with the postal service made earlier was actually quite apt.

Cheers,
Rick
To the ardent feminists, a simple question -- do you believe the world would be a morally superior place if there was no biological distinction between men and women -- i.e. there was only one gender?
Is it wrong for me to assume that the author is a white man just by what he wrote?
What We Know About Software Development and Why We Believe It's True [video]
Its on the frontpage because antirez is the author of redis. Who knows what prompted this but seems like its coming from way out of left field. Digging a bit into his blog archives, this seemed to be the only post that wasn't about redis.

I understand what he's trying to say, but the self-contradiction ("I think it is always an error to talk about sexism, but I'm going to talk about it anyway") shows that he's missing whatever point he's trying to respond to. Plus, its not at all a different take.
> Also, I question the "geeks like us" part.

If you question it, then you aren't who he is talking to.

For the record, it's not like he's claiming ownership of the word geek and assigning it a strict definition that involves owning an iOS device. He's saying it's designed for geeks like "us". A cross section of both "like Marco", and a geek.

Not exactly something to question.

> Why not just publish it as a downloadable PDF or EPUB or something along those lines ?

Because charging for it becomes much harder, it requires users to do more work, and it bypasses the hundreds of millions of iTunes accounts with credit cards already attached, something that has already been demonstrated to shoot up subscription rates.
He says he uses that as motivation to keep his routine alive.
News like this worries me because I've always imagined the world's improvements in mass market technology being driven by competition between major players like Intel and AMD.

In other words, I'm afraid that the loss of competition for Intel will slow the approach of the future.

The other sources of competition that Intel faces might be strong enough to motivate it, but I'm not as familiar with the influences that, say, ARM chips and Apple's own CPU development have had on Intel.
I understood his comment to refer to hacking on the interpreter itself (e.g. the source of CPython). Not talking about using the REPL.
Of course it depends on who's using your code. In java, if you have an api that other people are using, then you must use getters and setters. In python there is no such restriction.
Well the article is obviously about the rest of the venn circle. Sexual harassment is a crime not restricted to the IT community.
You referred to these numbers. I totally agree with you now - they don't mean a thing (and we'll never know why you included them here in the first place)
They were thinking on a global basis. Cuba could have ceased cooperating with the USSR, which needed to maintain a "global presence" to look like a good match for the US.

Giving away missiles that were already there, unknown to the CIA, and not even concerned by the agreement would certainly have been a good move to keep the alliance with Cuba strong - IFF the leader was considered stable enough to consider them as a gift of goodwill to establish long term deterrence, and not something to be used within the next years - or even right now.

The guy must have mastered the art of negotiation to take them away - or to have given much more in return to Cuba that was required to maintain an alliance (ex: exports, money, ...)
http://saumya5.brinkster.net/hci/25.pdf

Sorry, but a Wiki is about content, not looks.
Prepare To Pay For Your Privacy
Thanks for making this point. It's incredible how many people taking part in discussions about sexism are not aware of this very basic fact.
Pre-Seed Money via Crowdfunding
Global Illumination Compendium
> I'm relatively new to HN, but I already have seen these kinds of tone-deaf articles pop up over and over, and it's maddening, and absurd.

You should read the comments, too. It will become painfully obvious why these articles keep popping up. (Also note that this one was submitted by its author.)
Kleiner Perkins On The Past, Present And Future
If you do more than occasional processing, it's probably worth buying at least light utilisation reservation. Most people who use EC2 professionally (and who don't use spot instances) would or should be paying a reserve price
node.js?
Pwinty adds iPhone panorama support
And thats why we don't have equality. Men are violent and bossy, women are nurturing and caring, let's parade tough on crime and the nuclear family.
Abortion: Women Do Deserve Better
Romney and the Republican platform are in favor of defunding Planned Parenthood and both support an amendment banning abortion. Romney would make exceptions in cases of rape and incest. But this will not bring us to a place where women deserve to be.

Mitt Romney’s view and the Republican platform differ on abortion. Romney said: “I'm in favor of abortion being legal in the case of rape and incest, and the health and life of the mother.” The 2012 Republican Party platform, however, does not address these issues. The platform’s author, James Bopp, sidesteps the issue when pressed for clarification. Republicans are in favor of a constitutional amendment banning abortion and say that they will act to defund organizations that advocate or facilitate abortions. Romney agrees, says that he would “get rid” of public funding of Planned Parenthood.

On the other hand …

Read article here: Abortion: Women Do Deserve Better
US ambassador: Internet fee proposal gaining momentum
Could you explain how you found that audience? How can I find a reasonably sized group of people who will just tell me what their problems/pain-points are? I don't know where to start.
Your last point seems like it should be a function of market demands. If people wanted to see women talking about something other than men, those movies should dominate at the box office. Since women buy more movie tickets than men[1] and thus movies will be generally catered towards that demographic, if there is sexism at play here, it seems like it is coming from the female gender themselves which brings up a whole new set of "what's going on here?" questions.

[1] http://womenandhollywood.com/2010/03/11/guess-what-women-buy...
It's not so small when you add up all of the obtrusive javascript/framework code that is littered throughout the html:

<li ng-repeat="todo in todos | filter:statusFilter" ng-class="{completed: todo.completed, editing: todo == editedTodo}">

... which some may consider a bigger problem than size.
> * In Australia, Canada, Israel, South Africa and the United States, between 40 and 70 percent of female murder victims were killed by their intimate partners.

Why is that a bad thing (except that you're killed)? If with men, the percentages are not so high, and the rest are killed by random people, then surely women are better off - it's easier to investigate murders, find and punish the killers, even prevent murders.
Globally in 2010
History has shown that won't be the case. We might not be at 90% by the end of the month but mark my words, the exponential growth of iPhone sales in which each new model eclipses the entirety of iPhone sales up to that point has a pretty drastic effect on the old OS percentages.

The combination of the iPad, iPad mini, iPhone 5, and new iPod touch all running iOS 6 and the aggressive older device update strategy means we are pretty much assured 90% by the end of this year, if not sooner. With the notable exception of the original iPad, the iOS devices that can't run/won't run iOS 6 are a drop in the bucket.

The other thing to note is that as devices get older, users tend to enjoy them less and therefore screw around on them less. This naturally results in less app usage, less browser usage, appearing in less statistics, etc...

So while the exact percentage of all iOS devices running iOS 6 might take longer than a year to hit 90%, I suspect app developers will have a fairly different picture painted for them by their personal usage statistics.
>The difficulty is that anything more complex is TOO complex as an example.

This sums it up. "Todo" examples are intended as a web/js-framework equivalent to the traditional "Hello World" example used to introduce a programming language. "Todo" defines a basic unit of usefulness that can be easily implemented to give the target audience an idea of what a given framework "looks like". It isn't perfect, but it is a starting point for framework comparison.
Here, I made one.

( sexism at work { [ professional golf ] ) sexual harassment }
Couldn't agree more. Todo doesn't come close to exposing the actual strengths or limitations of a given framework.
Most meetings are actually briefings
I took Astronomy and we didn't deal with this.
When the Most Personal Secrets Get Outed on Facebook
Most of these MVC frameworks seem to add a lot of extra structure, which I don't like. Compare e.g. Backbone (https://github.com/addyosmani/todomvc/tree/gh-pages/architec...) or AngularJs (https://github.com/addyosmani/todomvc/tree/gh-pages/architec...) implementations to the simple jQuery implementation (https://github.com/addyosmani/todomvc/tree/gh-pages/architec...).

Are there any good JS libraries that take more Unix-like approach, i.e. they do one thing and they do it well? For example a library that would implement just the Model part: syncing data between server and client. Or another one that would implement for example a better abstractions for event handling (event-firing states, futures, etc.), but nothing more.
Your last point seems like it should be a function of market demands. If people wanted to see women talking about something other than men, those movies should dominate at the box office.

This is a correct deduction assuming (a) the film industry is a perfect market, that film producers will act as rational actors (how many "take my money" posts do we see?) and (b) that there is no institutional sexism at work in production/distribution etc. I think (a) & (b) are working here, making your "but people don't buy it!" argument false.
Web development at The Starter League
Free Pascal is reasonably popular in the indie game scene.
I'm struggling with the idea that you don't think these recent examples are 'actual' racism/sexism. I'd like to think that you're characterizing the people who see the situation as 'risk free' but the more I read your comment, the more I think you really are trying to trivialize recent events.

To take a small step into the oppression Olympics you're trying to play, being told "don't dress like sluts" by a police officer is a direct indication of how your police will handle cases of rape and sexual assault, i.e. poorly. Comments made about "legitimate rape" by politicians reveals the sexism to the point of disregarding reality these politicians hold. And these are the same politicians trying to pass anti-woman legislation. And an government ad campaign is not just words, it's tax dollars and policy.

So sure, I'll grant you that women aren't being sent away from the bank teller outright and non-whites aren't barred from employment explicitly, and I would say not because the -isms have become trivial, but because they have become more complex and/or structural. They manifest in forms where it is difficult to point your finger at something blatant, until someone slips up when speaking and reveals their true feelings and intentions (and no, I don't mean in a Freudian-slip way).

Or sometimes, the effect is so drastic that even though it's not obvious what factors are responsible, we can tell that something fishy is going on: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1cdxtcX2ICdWA2gWMW74...

And it's not 'risk-free' for women to speak out about sexism at work. Many fear backlash at work, and many get long-term harassment and rape threats online. I'd provide examples, but I've already taken so long writing this that now I'm one of many similar responses to your comment. But if anyone asks, I can dig some up.
Please explain how content that is inherently very expensive to create (such as big movies and games) would be funded under the proposed system.

Please take into account the following:

1. The studies usually cited saying that piracy does not reduce the income of content creators are studies of the current system, where there are legal barriers to the kind of commercial support of file sharing your proposal advocates. They are irrelevant to the question of what would happen under the proposed system.

2. Sites like TPB are completely legal under the proposal. It seems likely that the legalization of commercialization of file sharing (only the actual file sharing itself must be non-commercial under the proposal) will cause many other competitors to TPB to appear. Why wouldn't Google get in on it--integrate sharing of commercial movies with YouTube, for instance.

I would expect this to make file sharing become the main way most people get their content. Even those who prefer physical media and aren't technologically sophisticated enough to deal with burning discs will likely find someone serving them commercially.

E.g., I'd expect something like Red Box to appear that instead of dispensing pressed DVDs for rental downloads the movie the customer wants via file sharing, burns it to a DVD-R, and dispenses the disc. I have no doubt the operator of such a daevice could structure things in such a way that the customer is not paying for the shared file itself but rather just for the costs and service of retrieving the file and burning it, and so would be commercial support of file sharing, not commercial file sharing.
Harvey Weinstein attacks 'free internet'
Testing failing over to secondary datacenter (New York to Oregon) for the first time. So a little bit rocky. http://blog.serverfault.com/2012/10/11/working-towards-failu...
I'm not an American, so I might not be familiar of all the ways one ought to be politically correct, but let's focus on the one example that I do know: fat vs. overweight or horizontally-challenged or [silence].

My main objection with the idea that saying that someone is fat will hurt their feelings or make them feel bad is that no, it will NOT make them feel bad - rather, it will make them feel worse, because they must already feel bad. If someone is fat and they are ok with it, they wouldn't be hurt if I was pointing it out. It's just like I wouldn't be offended if someone called me a man, or European, or short/not tall, or geek, because I'm ok with all of those.

Therefore, based on personal reflection, I believe that people that get offended by saying they are fat are people that don't like being fat. But in that case, they should be shamed, in other words encouraged to do something about it, to make a positive change in their lives! I find the idea that I should limit my own freedom of speech just so that other people can continue living in ignorance, ridiculous.
Stating the problem is a step towards solving the problem. You can't solve something properly if you don't know it exists.

How is that, by itself, not helping?
It's prett easy to hate on this analyst and his strident, obsessive tone, but he's right on the money. Nokias financials have gone from fine to apocalyptic in short order and they are now burning cash at a crazy clip with no evidence of any competitive products in the pipeline.

They have months left, not years, and no amount of 'mindshare' is going to pay their bills in the new era.
Uh, let me think.. yes? The biological argument cuts every way, and if you're going to use it, you only end up cutting yourself.
I'd really like antirez to explain his inclusion of a quote that implies his entire article and the topic at large aren't even worth discussion. Randi has been able to bravely endure incredibly cruel sexist treatment from various online communities, some of which undoubtedly stemmed from pursuing interests in male-dominated spaces. However, I don't think it's fair to say that every woman can or should suffer such experiences with the same aplomb.

Edit: I have discussed this a bit with Randi, and there is indeed some context missing that makes me understand where she was coming from in the original quote.
"It's silly to try to protect all the minorities because they
are minorities"

That is silly. Societies are not made in heaven and are full of prejudices against minorities molded through centuries of white male domination.
Driving: The road less travelled
Having ATI's GPU on their SoC might be an upgrade. I am not convinced the Mac line will move to the ARM because of bootcamp and Microsoft's restrictions on ARM platforms.

Technically, VIA is still producing x86 chips.
Anastas Mikoyan is an interesting character. In another application of tricky diplomacy, he was one of the few Old Bolsheviks who managed to avoid being purged by Stalin, but also got ahead of the game on denouncing Stalin soon after his death, so avoided getting purged during de-Stalinization as well.

Less importantly, he's also the star of one of my favorite full-page magazine photos of all time, which I discovered while thumbing through an old issue of Life magazine: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/mikoyan_taco.html
After reading this I don't why would anyone ever want to meditate, there are no benefits mentioned at all and getting it wrong means life long misery.
As someone with no cs degree, I'd say get one. Having said that from a "getting a job" standpoint it doesn't make much difference, and I've never had any problems finding work as a software dev. Mainly the only things that count are if you have experience and can program whatever it be java, c, etc plus whatever frameworks or stacks the company is using. However, keep in mind that if you want a job with a big coorporate company like Apple or Google, you're definately gonna need a CS degree, either that or just be a genius and have made something incredible like a new programming language that tons of people start using. As far as where to go is concerned, nothings stopping you from contributing to open source and doing freelance work, my advice would just be find one project (seriously, one is more than enough) that you're interested in and get involved.
The depressing truth about the software business is that most of the success stories take the form "and then I started spending all my time on marketing, and my business took off!".

I say depressing because most software developers didn't choose their profession out of a burning desire to become a marketer.
http://m.netmagazine.com/features/primer-sexism-tech-industr...
Facebook “Promoted Posts” have primarily foreign “Likes”: Why?